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location; identifying the relative self as the real Self) and‘ this is all mine’ is attachment.‘ I am not this’ and‘ this is not mine’ is without attachment. The association with attachment is that of the pratishthit atma and the Self is without any attachment. The pure‘ I’ never moves from its location.‘ I am Chandulal’ and‘ this body is mine’, is pratishthit atma.
All the activities are done by the pratishthit atma. The pure Self does not do anything. All movement, walking, eating, etc., are the attributes of the non-Self and not of the Self. The Self does not sleep during the day or the night. It is the non- Self that sleeps. The one that performs the actions needs the rest and therefore sleeps. The Self does nothing so why would it need any rest? Who seeks rest? It is the one who is interested in rest, the pratisthit atma. All these activities are of the pratishthit atma. Who knows whether the pratisthit atma had sound sleep or not? The pure Self. The Self is the Knower and the Seer of the pratisthit atma and it never interferes in any activities of the pratisthit atma. All interference is done by the pratisthita atma. What the pratisthit atma knows is called gneya( object to be known) and the one that knows the pratisthit atma is the gnata, the Knower, the pure Self( Shuddhatma). Why does the pratisthit atma meddle or interfere? It meddles because it is interested in the worldly life. The Shuddhatma has no such interest; it is the Knower and the Seer and is the abode of eternal bliss. The Self illuminates the Self and the non-Self. The pratisthit atma illuminates the non-Self only. The Self Sees and Knows the pratisthit atma. Therefore the pratisthit atma is gneya( the known; object) and the Self is the Knower( the Gnata). The relation between Shuddhatma and pratisthit atma is only that of the Knower and the known.
A non-Self-realized( agnani) person may then ask who endures the suffering. He himself endures suffering. Is he not the soul? He is the soul but he is the pratisthit soul. He has not